>Number:         15021
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       sip0 on SiS630E doesn't autodetect media type
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    kern-bug-people
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Dec 21 01:53:00 PST 2001
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Stephen Borrill
>Release:        NetBSD 1.5.2
>Organization:
Precedence Technologies Ltd
>Environment:
	
System: NetBSD laptop 1.5Y NetBSD 1.5Y (LAPTOP) #4: Thu Dec 20 11:22:27 GMT 2001 root@laptop:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/LAPTOP i386


>Description:
With the on-board ethernet of the SiS 630E chipset, when sip0 is first
ifconfiged, you must specify a media type. If not, ifconfig sip0 will list
the media as autoselect (none) and no network traffic will be seen in or
out (accompanied by sip0: device timeout errors). 
This has been seen with a 10baseT hub. It has not been tried with a
100baseTX switch/hub.
>How-To-Repeat:
Create an ifconfig.sip0 file containing:
inet 192.168.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0

Reboot. Attempt to ping or tcpdump.
Now type:
ifconfig sip0 media 10baseT

You will now be able to ping or tcpdump, etc.
>Fix:
No fix known.

To work around, manually specify a media type, e.g. add the following to
your ifconfig.sip0 file:
media 10baseT
>Release-Note:
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